[Bf-committers] User Preferences Option for Multitouch Gestures

[patrick boelens]

Also, I only just found this, but the pinch/ magnifiy seems to be opposite of what you'd expect I think? (pinch is zoom out, magnify is zoom in.)

-Patrick

> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:58:14 -0400
> From: significant.bit at gmail.com
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] User Preferences Option for Multitouch Gestures
> 
> Patch reviewed -- looks good to me! For the most part...
> 
> Doing this in the WM has the additional benefit of affecting all
> platforms, not just MacBooks. Yay!
> 
> Posting a GHOST event is an okay solution like you say, but might as
> well go for the best, right? Which WM event type is generated in
> response to a GHOST_kEventWheel? Just make one of those and let the
> rest of that function handle it in the usual way. I'm guessing
> wm_event_add_ghostevent puts things at the end of the queue, so the
> (new) wheel event would be processed after events that actually
> happened later. Does this matter? Maybe, maybe not. But it's simple to
> avoid the issue by constructing a WM event instead.
> 
> Hope this was helpful!
> 
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:12 PM, patrick boelens <p_boelens at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Found some time to revisit this and I think I found a work-around, though I'm not sure if it's considered clean (enough). I've opened a page on the tracker with the diff: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=30746
> >
> > Basically what I did is I check the user pref status in the wm_event_system. When turned off, it then recalls wm_event_add_ghostevent() with a GHOST_kEventWheel. I'm not sure if this is allowed, but it seemed like an okay solution.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Patrick
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